EAN: 9780753557778

WHEN THE HEAVENS WENT ON SALE - ASHLEE VANCE KA...

*An instant New York Times Bestseller*'One of the most exciting tales of our time... It's the
next tech frontier  and Vance turns it into a thriller' Walter Isaacson  author of Steve
Jobs'Eloquent  expertly reported' Brad Stone  author of The Everything Store_______________A
momentous look at the private companies driving the revolutionary new space race  from the
3-million copy  New York Times bestselling author of Elon Musk In 2008  Elon Musk's SpaceX
became the first private company to build a low-cost rocket that could reach orbit. Suddenly
Silicon Valley  not NASA  was the epicentre of the new Space Age. Ashlee Vance follows four
pioneering companies - Astra  Firefly  Planet Labs and Rocket Lab - as they race to control
access to outer space. While the space tourism ambitions of billionaires such as Bezos and
Branson make headlines  these under-the-radar companies are striving to monetise Earth's lower
orbit  to connect  analyse and monitor everything on Earth. With unprecedented access to
private company headquarters  labs and top-secret launch locations - from the US to New Zealand
Ukraine to India - Vance presents a gripping account of private jets  communes  gun-toting
bodyguards  drugs  espionage investigations and multimillionaires guzzling booze as their
fortunes disappear. This is the most pressing and controversial technology story of our time.
Welcome to the new Wild West above the clouds.

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